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Spațiul de graniță și comportamentul magic în basmul popular românesc cu zmei răpitori de fecioare / The Space of the Border and the Magical Behavior in the Romanian Folk Tale with Dragons StealingVirgins [PDF]

open access: yesIncursiuni în imaginar, 2018
This study examines the comprising aspects of the proximity state situated at the boundary between the sacred and the profane in the folktale worlds, per se as many laws structured on either side of a line that defines the concept of otherness.
Petru Adrian Danciu
doaj   +1 more source

How wildlife respond to tropical cyclones: short‐term tactics and long‐term impacts

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT From butterflies to lizards and from sharks to seabirds, wildlife exhibit tactics to survive the impacts of tropical cyclones, also known as hurricanes, cyclones, or typhoons depending on where they occur. Some species seek refuge during the storm by moving, some remain in place and ride it out, and others move longer distances, avoiding the ...
Erin L. Koen   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Le jardin religieux catholique

open access: yesGéographie et Cultures, 2007
In the religious garden two spatial modes meet : the first one is real, the second one corresponds to a projection of man onto the universe beyond. The religion has forits aim the relation which man maintains with the divinity, it showsthe effective bond
Étienne Grésillon
doaj   +1 more source

STAZELE EULUI IN ATINGEREA IDEALULUI ALTERITATII LA MIRCEA ELIADE (THE STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN REACHING THE IDEAL OF ALTERITY AT MIRCEA ELIADE) [PDF]

open access: yesIncursiuni în imaginar, 2017
From the point of view of the social sciences, the ratio identity-antinomy is that one between Myself and the rest of the world, hypostasized by The Other.
Liliana Danciu
doaj   +1 more source

Aesthetic and Spiritual Ecosystem Services Provided by Urban Sacred Sites

open access: yes, 2017
The range and use of ecosystem services provided by urban sacred sites has hardly been considered in studies of urban ecology, sustainability and human wellbeing.
P. Lacy, C. Shackleton
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Mining: An Integrated Institutional and Agency Theory Perspective

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mining is one of the foundations of economic development but has historically been associated with severe socioenvironmental impacts, such as ecosystem degradation, displacement of traditional communities, and large‐scale disasters. In this context, corporate social responsibility (CSR) plays a central role as a mechanism for legitimizing ...
Felipe Moura Oliveira   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
wiley   +1 more source

Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

KEINDAHAN SEBAGAI ELEMEN SPIRITUAL PERSPEKTIF ISLAM TRADISIONAL

open access: yesJurnal Kawistara, 2015
Beauty for most part eventually seen as the science of form, more than that is of the essential part of human living and the way we look at it by the time become more discern as it invites the philosophical vibration.
Andi Herawati
doaj   +1 more source

Pop stars and idolatry: an investigation of the worship of popular music icons, and the music and cult of Prince. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Prince is an artist who integrates elements from the sacred into his work. He uses popular iconography to present himself as an icon of consumer culture, as a deified ‘rock god’ worshipped by his fans, and as a preacher leading his audience like a ...
Baty S. Paige   +23 more
core   +1 more source

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